Mickey D's got itself into a bit of a pickle after making a bad bet on some chicken wings this quarter.

The fast food behemoth introduced the Mighty Wing — a bone-in chicken wing priced at $4.99 for five pieces — in September. Now they're stuck with 10 million pounds of chicken, nearly 20 percent of their initial order, in frozen storage.

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"They underestimated their own impact on wings' costs," Wedbush Securities analyst Nick Setyan told USA Today. "Now they have got all this extra supply they don't know what to do with and they are going to try to force it down franchisees' throats again."

McDonalds CEO Don Thompson admitted they made a mistake on the wings, telling investors that the wings were probably too spicy for customers and the $1 per wing price was “not the most competitive.